"No matter who the man is, so long as he is willing to give me 30,000 dollars I will marry him immediately," the Australian quoted her as writing on the dating site.

A 54-year-old man named Wang began a relationship with a 24-year-old graduate student who listed her desires as "a man with a house in Shanghai and 1 million yuan in the bank".

Wang said they met in a coffee shop and then moved in together for several months until his lover found a 60-year-old American-born Chinese man, who wooed her away with a promise to take her to the US.

"I could not fall in love with a man who didn't have his own house, even though he was young and handsome," said another 28-year-old graduate.

Young men are not averse to advertising their readiness to trade love for money, either.

Xiao Louming, a student in Hangzhou, confessed, "If a family can give me 10 million yuan investment capital, then I'm ready to marry a woman 10 years older than me." (ANI)